IDBI Bank Executive Exam Analysis 2019, May 16: Now, that IDBI has announced the notification many aspirants are looking for a detailed previous year exam analysis. Last year’s exam didn’t take place, so we will have to look for the 2019 exam papers to analyze them. We will be covering the 16th May shift today.
Category wise cut-offs applied on objective test
| CATEGORY | T1- LR (60) | T2- EL (40) | T3- QA (40) | T4 – BA (60) |
| SC, ST, OBC, PWD | 14 | 12.25 | 7.75 | 8.00 |
| EWS, UR | 20.50 | 16.75 | 11.75 | 13.00 |
Category wise cut-offs applied on Total
| – | SC | ST | OBC | EWS | UR | HH | OH | VH |
| For Merit Listed | 108.75 | 95.50 | 120.75 | 125.00 | 129.50 | 55.00 | 113.75 | 128.75 |
| For Waitlisted | 101.00 | 85.25 | 114.25 | 118.25 | 118.25 | 52.00 | 100.75 | 109.25 |
The reading comprehension was based on satellites. 3 questions of vocabulary were asked. 1 fill in the blank. Synonym for ‘Beamed’ and an antonym for ‘Surface.’
The topic for the cloze test was ‘WorkLife in an office.”
Word exchange – In a sentence, 4 words were bold. You have to identify which two words can be exchanged.
Word usage – A word was followed by 4 sentences. you have to check the correct usage of the word in a sentence. Words: Oblique, Balance.
Para Jumble – Topic: Gadgets used in smart classes
| Sr. No. | Topics | No. of Questions | Difficulty |
| 1 | Reading Comprehension | 10 | Moderate |
| 2 | Single Fillers | 5 | Easy |
| 3 | Cloze Test | 10 | Moderate |
| 4 | Error Spotting | 4 | Moderate |
| 5 | Phrase replacement | 4 | Easy |
| 6 | Word exchange | 5 | Easy |
| 7 | Match the column | 2 | Easy |
| 8 | Word usage | 5 | Easy |
| 9 | Para Jumble | 5 | – |
Overall Level: Easy-Moderate
The quants section was of the moderate level. The number series was of missing type. The quadratic equation was easy going. The BODMAS was used for solving approximated-based questions.
Data Interpretation – Pie Chart (Total no. of animals = 1800, % of animals sold in a pet shot was given in a pie chart)
Table based (No. of females & percentage of males was given)
Line graph (data of items sold by 5 companies were given)
Arithmetic – Topics like Time & Work, Time speed & distance, percentage, profit, and loss, etc.
| S. No. | Topics | Number of questions | Difficulty |
| 1 | Number Series | 10 | Moderate |
| 2 | Data Interpretation | 15 | Moderate |
| 3 | Quadratic equation | 5 | Easy |
| 4 | Approximation | 5 | Based on BODMAS – Easy |
| 5 | Arithmetic | 10 | Moderate |
Overall Level: Moderate
The reasoning ability section was judged to be tricky and moderate and that’s why the lowest number of good attempts were made for this section. Some topics were quite easy but some would have surely challenged everyone. Easy ones included syllogism and inequality. The section was very well dominated by the puzzles which were of moderate level.
Puzzles bifurcation
Miscellaneous topics included blood relation, direction sense mainly.
| S. No. | Topics | Number of questions | Difficulty |
| 1 | Puzzles | 25 | Moderate |
| 2 | Syllogism | 5 | Easy |
| 3 | Inequality | 5 | Easy |
| 4 | Coding Decoding | 5 | Moderate |
| 5 | Miscellaneous | 10 | Moderate |
Overall Level – Moderate
The good attempts were analyzed upon the difficulty level described by the aspirants who took the exam in 2019. English as usual leads with the most number of attempts. Reasoning and quantitative aptitude were on the same page when it came to attempts.
| SECTIONS | GOOD ATTEMPTS |
| ENGLISH LANGUAGE | 45-46 |
| REASONING ABILITY | 43-45 |
| QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE | 42-45 |
| TOTAL | 131-136 |
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